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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

128th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
Jun 22 – Nov 19, 2025 · Salish Sea

Summer in the Salish

These familiar waters held me close through the long bright months.

125 m
Deepest dive
6:04
Longest dive
193
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
150

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2025177 m13.4°C79 m
Jul 3, 2025129 m12.4°C70 m
Jul 11, 202521 m17.7°C18 m
Jul 26, 2025217 m14.8°C52 m
Jul 26, 2025101 m14.8°C92 m
Aug 5, 2025163 m15.3°C110 m
Aug 5, 2025101 m15.3°C66 m
Sep 11, 2025121 m15.8°C68 m
Oct 5, 2025158 m13.5°C125 m
Nov 7, 2025101 m10.2°C93 m
Nov 10, 202548 m11.0°C43 m
Nov 19, 202591 m9.9°C73 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 22, 2025 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 3, 2025 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 11, 2025 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 217 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 5Sep 11, 2025 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 11Oct 5, 2025 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Oct 5Nov 7, 2025 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Nov 7Nov 10, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Nov 10Nov 19, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Nov 19

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

125 m
Deepest dive
6:04
Longest dive
193
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
150
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150125 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (158 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 5, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
158 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 217 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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